Expo, navigation stacks, device APIs (camera, location, notifications), Zustand for state, and publishing to both stores. The React Native course for web developers shipping their first mobile app.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on react native you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by engineers who ship react native systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale — not how the documentation describes them.
Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. The goal is understanding through doing.
Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on react native available on the internet.
Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
Creating an Expo project, React Native's layout model (Flexbox by default), core components (View, Text, ScrollView, FlatList), StyleSheet, and how the bridge between JavaScript and native differs from web React.
Stack navigator, tab navigator, drawer navigator, passing params between screens, deep linking, and the navigation patterns users expect on iOS vs Android.
expo-camera for photo/video, expo-location with permissions flow, expo-notifications for push notifications via Expo's push service, and the permission UX patterns Apple and Google require.
Zustand for lightweight global state, React Query for server state and caching, secure storage for tokens with expo-secure-store, and the async patterns that handle slow mobile network conditions.
Building production binaries with EAS Build, app.json configuration, App Store Connect submission checklist, Google Play Console, and the OTA update system that lets you ship fixes without store review.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Complete walkthroughs of building and shipping a React Native app with Expo — from setup to stores.
Stack, tab, and drawer navigation — the navigation patterns every React Native app uses.
Camera, location, and notifications with Expo APIs — plus the permissions flow both platforms require.
Building production binaries, submitting to App Store and Google Play, and using EAS Update for OTA fixes.
Global state in React Native with Zustand — lightweight, no boilerplate, and persists to AsyncStorage easily.
The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.
The Expo monorepo. Every expo-* module source is here — read the API implementations to understand what each device API actually does under the hood.
The standard navigation library for React Native. The /packages directory has the source for stack, tab, and drawer navigators.
Minimal state management library. Tiny source code makes it easy to understand exactly how it manages global state without boilerplate.
Material Design component library for React Native. The most-used UI kit for production React Native apps — saves days of building custom components.
If you know React, React Native is the fastest path to a mobile app. This course bridges the differences — layout, navigation, device APIs — that trip up web developers.
One codebase, two stores. React Native with Expo is the leanest stack for a solo founder shipping a mobile product.
Teams with web expertise can extend to mobile with React Native without hiring native iOS/Android engineers. This course covers what the web team needs to know.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers mobile development and React Native in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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